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the greatest of the old Testament prophets; received the call c. 740 C., and d. some time after 701. His, book has given rise to a great theological and critical lit. It is not one continuous ‘work, but a collection of prophesies of varying date. Large portions of chaps. 1-39 are the work of I. himself. But it is now universally held that chaps. 40-66 date from after the return from exile, and were written therefore c. 540 B.C.; chaps. 60-66 may be later still—V. cent. B.C.—while Kenneth would date considerable portions of the whole book in the II. cent. Its hist., spiritual, and theological importance is as great as that, of any Old Testament book. phal work, dating in present form from probably about A.D. 200. R. H. Charles, who has thoroughly examined it, believes it made up of (1) Martyrdom of Isaiah, (2) Testament of Hezekiah, (3) Vision of Isaiah. Written in Gk.; (2) po ibly in Semitic; these three probably written end of I. cent. 24’ S., 30° 38’ E.), hill, Zuzuland, South Africa; scene of memorable Brit. disaster in Zulu War, 1879. | Bavaria, Germany; ancient Jsarus; rises in Tyrol; joins Danube near Deggendorf; length, c. 200 miles. ancient district, Asia Minor, on N. slope of Taurus; seat for cent’s of a race of robbers who, defeated succe ively by Ser villus and Pompey, remained still barbarous and unsubdued.